Hello! i have a 1 and a half year old russian/Horsefield tortoise i have had Pebbles (the name of him/her is pebbles) for basically her whole life i get pebbles when she was 3 weeks old 1 inch when i got her now she is 1.5 inches i feel like she should have grown a lot more by now. (and yes i...
Hello, i am very scared for my three toed box turtle Lemon, i just took a minute to admire her like always when i saw her trying to use the restroom and i saw her really trying and nothing was coming out, i also saw that the part where stuff excretes/her cloaca was red and puffy. what could this...
Hello! so i have noticed my three toad box turtle's activity levels have been dropping, and she just comes out and basks under her heat then goes into her hid for the rest of the day. she is very picky and will only eat sweet potato and earth worms (and yes i have tried so many times to get her...
Hello guys!! i have a three toad box turtle named Lemon, she is extremely picky and only eats sweet potato/yam and earth worms, she has been okay on this diet but i worry that she will not always be getting all the nutrition that she needs since she just eats two things, i mix in collard greens...
Hello fellow Tortoise lovers!! I have a CB Baby russian named Pebbles i got him last year august 18th 2018 at a reptile expo, he was only 3 weeks old, so a hatchling he is now almost a yearling his bifthday is july 28. about a month after i got him i stafted noticing symptoms of Hatchling...
Hello everyone! my 9 month old russian tortoise Pebbles seems to be shedding i have heard of some tortoises shedding but i am unsure if it is normal because it is really not discussed very much, out of all the videos and books i have read i have heard no one even talk about shedding, i think it...
Hello everyone! i have heard so many different answers about the 5.0 and 10.0 and i just wanna know which one to use. i've heard people say 5.0 doesn't pout out enough UVB for any reptile that needs to bask, and some people say 10.0 is way to strong. it will be like 8-10 inches away from the...
Hello!! I am adopting a three toad soon and wanted to know what type of fish i can feed them. I know not gold fish, but i was wondering if there our any types that i could breed.
Hello! i have a 48" UVB Reptisun 10.0 and a 24" Reptisun 10.0 and the 24" is very dull compared to the 48" is this a problem should i return it? please let me know soon so i can know if it is okay for him thanks!
Hello everyone! i have a 48" UVB tube light 10.0 and i hear some people saying to change it every 6 months and thats what i was going to do but on the box it says to change it every 12 months. do you guys use this light too and when should i be changing it? I also have a hatchling Russian...
Hello!! so i got my horsefield tortoise pebbles about 6 months ago so he is almost 7 months i don't know if you consider that a hatchling... but anyways he has been gaining weight he was 16 grams when i got him now 26 grams so i think thats good weight gain, but my concern is he has not grown...
So i have been using a mixture of eco earth and reptile bark for my Hatchling russian tortoise and it has been pretty good but it is very dusty even though i mist it twice day and there seem to be lots of bugs like fruit flies or something. So i was thinking of changing it to a topsoil our there...
Hello i have been dreading making this thread because i am to afraid my 3 month old hatchling (Pebbles) will have HFS. so i read tom's thread about HFS and i feel like Pebbles has all the symptoms. "his appetite drops a little and he hides or sleeps a little more. Then the shell starts feeling a...
Hello everyone! i am thinking of changing my hatchling Russian tortoise (Pebbles) substrate from eco earth to cypress mulch i found one brand that says "100⁒ Cypress mulch" is this a god brand i will insert a picture. also any brand suggestions would be wonderful. thanks!
hello! so i have had my russian tortoise pebbles for like 5 weeks now he is 2 months old and I've heard young tortoises like pebbles still probably have a little bit of a soft shell is this true? because today i went to feel pebbles shell and the plastron is still soft and the back scutes next...
hello! so my russian tortoise hatchling (Pebbles) from when i got him/her 5 weeks ago Pebbles had great urates (like toothpaste) and for the past week or 2 Pebbles has had no urates is this a problem?
i got my hatchling russian tortoise 4 weeks ago he has never been very active he only spends at the most 1hr out of a burrow to eat some food and then goes back to a burrow for the rest of the day. is he sick what should i do?
Hello! so a few days ago i saw my hatchling tortoise blow one bubble out his nose, so i thought i will take him to the vet so i was going to take him but the i noticed he hadn't been doing it anymore and it was just one time so i waited a few days to see if he did it again so to day i saw him...
Hello! so for the past week or 2 my new russian tortoise (Pebbles) he is a month old i have had him for 3 weeks now, he randomly quickly pulls in to his shell and makes a squeaking sound almost like a sneeze or lake a mouse squeak i don't know why? can someone please help?!